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Apr 28 - May 4, 2016 Vol. 28, No. 35
Your Free Guide To our islands’ Happenings
Dolphin Discovery 10,000 Smiles Toy Drive Saturday, April 30th Also THis week: Party on Park lane @ Tortola Pier Park• NTl: Hangmen @ HlsCC • Candyland Festival @ The island last resort
This Week’s Feature Story by Arlena Smith
NTL: Hangmen The BVI Theatre Series presented by Appleby BVI continues to bring top rated London theatre productions filmed live on stage and beamed to screens across the world. The last performance in the series is Hangmen, which was filmed at the Royal Court Theatre showing on Saturday, 30th April at 7pm at the Eileen Parsons Auditorium. Martin McDonagh is one of the most exciting young playwrights of the nineties. With works such as
The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Cripple of Inishmaan, he has shown a gift for dark, visceral humor and an unwavering understanding of human
capital punishment has been abolished. We find
frailty. Martin’s work returns to the stage after ten years
Harry retired and something of a local celebrity, lord-
with Hangmen, a humorous look about a serious sub-
ing over the patrons of his wife’s Oldham Pub. He hes-
ject – the end of hanging in the sixties in England.
itantly consents to an interview with the local paper
The story is based on Harry Wade (David
concerning the recent abolition of what was his life’s
Morrissey), the second-best hangman in England, as
work. The subject matter is grim, yet Hangmen is
he adjusts to a country in which executions no longer
weirdly entertaining and funny.
exist. A prologue reveals the brutal scene of Harry’s
Don’t miss your opportunity to see the last per-
last execution, that of a young man who murdered a
formance of the series. Tickets available at House,
girl in the North Country. The rest of the play’s action
Digicel and the Watering Hole, $15 in advance, $20 at
unfolds exactly two years later. It is now 1965 and
the door and $10 for students and HLSCC staff.
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Dear Koren, Every week my girlfriend reads your article out loud, especially if she think it have a message for me, but let me tell you something miss. Many of these girls that complain of what man is doing to them, know exactly what they getting into. My girl met me with somebody and she know I’m the kind of man that like a little variety, but I don't have more than two woman at a time because I can't afford it seeing I take good care of them. Also, it is not all time man want the ton of drama. Why if they meet you a certain way, they try to change you and then get blue mad when that don't happen. Make no sense to a simple man like me but maybe a professional like you can explain it. ~Kingman
it for themselves. Maybe you have told her you love her and in her mind, if he loves me, he won’t do something that hurts me, hence her expecting the best from you. Think about it though, if you know what she prefers and you love her, is it that hard to try to please her sometimes? I suggest you reconsider that variety thing. Our women in the Caribbean have enough personality and style and change their hairstyles so quickly, you will think you are dating three different women. Seriously though, playing around is outdated and monogamy is the best way to go. When you are committed and loyal to a woman, you will be the recipient of the full outpouring of her love and undivided attention. That drama that you talk about, gets stale quickly and can cause damage to you or those women, emotionally and physically. It is not worth it. Treat the woman in your life they way you would want your mother or your sister treated; with the respect and the loyalty she deserves. You will be a better man because of it.
Dear Kingman, If she reads the column every week I hope you know that she will read this and know that you sent it in right? I guess you are willing to take that risk. You are right, many women know who the man is they are getting together with and see some of his negative qualities early on, but they think he will change. Women naively believe that they are the special one who can turn that bad boy into the nice guy who brings flowers and helps with housework. Some men do change when they fall in love but they have to want
Lime ... “to hang around idly” or “to go out on the town.” Source: The Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole by the late educator and historian Lito Valls. The Limin’ Times brings you all the news about when and where to “lime” in the British Virgin Islands. Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide
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By Claudia Colli dolphin swim – and put a smile another child’s face too. For more information contact Dolphin Discovery at 494-7675.
Candyland at Island Last Resort Make sure to get out to The Island Last Resort on Saturday, April 30th for the first annual Candyland Festival. This Electro-Caribbean Music Festival will be a fusion of new electronic beats with Caribbean rhythms. There will be fire dancers, a massive bonfire, cocktail bar, a beer bar, and a Bounce VI light show. DJs Negril, Lora, Bertrum, along with a special guest DJ will help make this a memorable evening. The Island opens at 5pm for Happy Hour and live performances will begin at 6:30pm. The cover charge is $15 at the dock and includes a Welcome Drink. A boat ride will depart for The Island every 30 minutes from Trellis Bay by The Island Last Resort sign. Or, bring your own boat; dock space and overnight mooring balls are available. For more information and reservations call 394-0100.
Party on Park Lane The Tortola Pier Park is the place to be on Friday, April 29. Starting at 4:30pm and going on until 9pm, the “Party on Park Lane” will bring this new Road Town shopping and entertainment district to life with a live band and the popular DJ Dre. Myetts and Aromas will also have their own DJs. The stores at TPP will be in on the action, with a “Fast-dash Sale” featuring significant discounts on products and services for two hours starting at 5pm.
Bug Out VG Clean-up Eliminating disease carrying mosquitos is at the top of the agenda when Virgin Gorda residents hold a Breeding Site Reduction Community Clean-up on Sunday, April 30th beginning at 7am. The starting points are the HLSCC Virgin Gorda Campus parking lot in The Valley and Captain Owen Harrigan Visitors’ Center in Gun Creek. For more information on this nonprofit intitiative to control mosquitoes in Virgin Gorda go to www.butouttogether.org or visit their Facebook page – www.facebook.com/bugoutbvi.
Dolphin Discovery Toy Drive
Donate a toy and swim with the dolphins this Saturday, April 30th. The fourth annual “10,000 Smiles” shares the love with needy children by collecting donated toys to be distributed by island charities. Children from one to 17 years old must give a toy with a minimum cost of $15. (Please make sure that they are new unopened toys). Children under five must be accompanied by a paying adult. Cost for adults is $45 and photo CDs are available at $15 per person. There is no better way to make your own child happy with a
Myett’s TPP and CGB It’s Super Saturday with DJ music at the Chill Zone at the Tortola Pier Park in Road Town on Saturday, April 29th. Then, next weekend starting on Friday, May 6th and Saturday, May 7th Myett’s Cane Garden Bay will be hosting legendary blues recording artists, Kal David and Miss Lauri Bono who will take the stage from 8pm to 11pm. They will also be performing on May 11th, 12th and 21st. 7
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THURSDAY - APR 28 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone” Ladies Night 2 for 1 drink specials CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — “ No Ship Day” Brkf/Lunch/Din daily. Sunset Happier Hour 4-7pm music by Candyman. QUITO’S — Open from 3pm. Live Music by Marcus Mark at Happy Hour. Caave Stoutt & Akim. ELM’S — Daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm & 2 for $5 Carib Beer. Serving Dinner 6-9pm WEST END D’BEST CUP — Open daily from 7am till 5pm for great coffee and delicious breakfasts till 2pm. PUSSERS — George Worthmore from 7-9:30pm VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Glenn Lamonthe “Eon Starzs” from 5-7:30pm FRIDAY - APR 29 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone”TGIF Party with Local DJ & Drink Specials PIER PARK — Party On Park Lane with music by VIBE & DJ Dre 4:30-9pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S —” No Ship Day” Brkf/Lunch/Din daily. Sunset Happier Hour with Live Steel Pan w/ Marlon 4-7pm. Evolution Band 7pm for Limbo Dance Contest QUITO’S — Open from 3pm. Music by Caave Stoutt & Akim for Happy Hour 5-6.30pm. The Edge 8.30pm ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm. Beach BBQ. Music by Jeff Ross 7-10pm
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SATURDAY - APR 30 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone” Super Saturday Party with DJ PROSPECT REEF — Dolphin Discovery 10,000 Smiles Toy Drive PARAQUITA BAY HLSCC — National Theatre Live presents Hangmen at 7pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — “No Cruise Ship Day” Brkf/Lunch/Din daily. Marcus Mark for Happier Hour 4-7pm. Evolution Band from 7pm w/ Limbo & Dance Contest QUITO’S — Bar @ 10am & Kitchen Noon. Marlon Pan Jazz lunch. Too Smooth Happy Hour 5-10pm ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm. WEST END PUSSERS — Cave Stoutt live from 7-9:30pm VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar” Glenn Lamonthe “Eon Starzs” from 5-7:30pm THE ISLAND LAST RESORT — Candyland Festival with music by DJ Negril, Burtrum, Lora & Guest DJ show starts 6:30pm SUNDAY - MAY 1 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone” Sunday Family Funday 2 for 1 personal sized pizza all day until 7pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — “No Cruise Ship Day” Breakfast/Lunch & Dinner daily. Sunset Happier Hour 4-7pm & Marcus Mark live at 7pm QUITO’S — Bar open at 10am & Kitchen open at Noon. Happy Hour Marlon Pan Jazz.
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CANE GARDEN BAY
CANE GARDEN BAY
ELM’S — Daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Dinner 6-9pm. Beach BBQ. Music Jeff Ross 7-10pm
MYETT’S — Breakfast/brunch/ lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with Candyman 7pm.
WEST END PUSSERS — Pan Vibes 12-3pm
QUITO’S — Open from 10am. Music by Marcus Mark at Lunch & Happy Hour 5-6.30pm. Quito Solo 7:30pm.
VIRGIN GORDAOUTER ISLANDS HLSCC CAMPUS AND GUN CREEK — Community mosquito breeding site clean-up OUTER ISLANDS
ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm & 2 for $5 Carib Beer. Serving Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm.
PUSSER’S (MARINA CAY) — “Rob White Bar Pan Vibes
VG & OUTER ISLANDS
12-3pm
MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar “Eon Stars” from 5-7:30pm
MONDAY - MAY 2 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone” Margarita Mondays 2 for 1 speciality martinis 5-7pm WEST END PUSSERS — George Worthmore from 7-9:30pm CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Brkf/Lunch/Din daily. Sunset happier hour music by ‘Candyman’ 4-7. Mexican Monday 2 for 1 Margaritas and Mexican Munchies. “Al The Singing Chef” QUITO’S — Open from 3pm. Happy Hour Caave Stoutt. VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar “Eon Stars” TUESDAY - MAY 3 ROAD TOWN PUSSERS — Daily Happy Hour from 5pm - 7pm PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone” Taco Tuesday’s 2 for 1 Tacos & Margaritas 5-7 WEST END PUSSERS — George Worthmore live 7-9:30pm
UPCOMING HAPPENINGS
WEDNESDAY - MAY 4 ROAD TOWN PIER PARK — ”Myett’s Chill Zone”Wacky Wild Wednesday Drink Specials & Party w/ DJ 5pm til CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Breakfast/brunch/lunch & dinner daily. Sunset happier hour with live music by ‘Candyman’ 4-7. Tortola’s own 3D Band 7pm. WEST END PUSSERS — George Worthmore live from 7-9:30pm QUITO’S — Open from 10am for lunch & dinner. Marcus Mark at lunch. Happy Hour 5-6.30pm with Quito. Too Smooth from 7.30pm.
Mother’s Day May 7 Kal David & Miss Lauri Bono @ Myett’s CGB — May 6, 7, 11, 12, 21 9th Annual Black & White Thang — May 7 CIL Mother’s Day Car Sale — May 7
ELM’S — Lunch daily 11am-4pm. Happy Hour 3:30-6pm. Caribbean Fusion Dinner 6-9pm.
CIL Annual Health Expo — May 21
VG & OUTER ISLANDS MARINA CAY (VG) — “Rob White Bar “Eon Stars” from 5-7:30pm
HLSCC Spring Concert — May 21
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CADA Players presents “TattleTales” — May 21 & 22/ 28 & 29 Mardi Gras featuring Popcaan Live @ UP’s Ballroom — May 28
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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway
A Champion’s Bad Day Bharat came in and somewhat stabilized the “Man, yo’ late,” my friend Andrea told me when innings, resisting enough to score a team high 25, I showed up for Sunday afternoon’s Cavaliers vs before he was caught by Kenrick Leslie off Earl Vincy playoff match at Greenland, after swimming Prescott’s bowling. From there, the next three batsmy mile as part of a plan to cover 50 by Sept 30. men went for five runs each as they reeled at 45-5 and “Nah man. This my usual time,” I replied. “Well the lower order systematically collapsed for 18 runs— de game done long time. More that an hour now,” seven of which were scored by Dhanpaul she said. Chrisnanand. “Done? How you mean done already,” I queried. “We knew it was a must win for “Dem got bowled out for 63,” us to qualify for the semifinal, but chimed in former Vincy manager we had a bad day—everybody Tameka. played badly,” said Aaron Baker “60 what?” I retorted noticwho was clean bowled by Neil Niles ing that there really was no for two. “This is the worst day action taking place. “How yo’ Cavaliers ever had. We have to work mean 63?” on our cricket. We have the talent. “Well, all dem Cavaliers man We can do better than this. We have done change their clothes and to work hard for the next time.” gone go drink rum,” Andrea Vincy raced to 37 for 1, before added. “Them shame.” Leslie went for 8. Ferris Pope, the “Geez, let me go find one other opener finished with 33 not and see what really happened,” I Cavaliers fell flat out including three sixes and three told them. boundaries, while Desron Maloney had a contributing Sunday’s match was to be a grudge match. Two 22 not out to send them through to the semis against weeks ago, Cavaliers beat Vincy to secure their posiRoyal Knights on Sunday. tion in the BVI Cricket Association LIME Twenty 20 “It was a game that everybody expected to see League Premier Division for another year. Cavaliers’ Cavaliers walk over Vincy, but Vincy showed up in captain Vishal Bharat, spoke about his team finding their numbers and surprised all the spectators at its stride and its need to stay focused. Greenland today,” captain Bront DeFreitas said. A seemingly different team faced Vincy in “After winning the toss, we asked Cavaliers to bat and Sunday’s playoff encounter, one that saw the five to everyone’s surprise, we bowled them out for 63. It time champs’ most anemic display in their storied hiswas about discipline. A good fielding performance tory, as they were bowled out for a paltry 63 in 11.4 and a better bowling performance than in the last overs, during a stunning nine wickets defeat. game we played against them. So the guys really The carnage started early as opener Mohammed showed up today in their numbers, they have done a Hassan went for a duck and his partner Dorian good job and I must congratulate them.” Augiste was run out for two. 11
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By Jane Bakewell
Blue Jasmine If you haven’t seen this particular Woody Allen film, it is worth a look back just a few years in the Netflix archives. Cate Blanchett (who won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2014, for this film) plays Jasmine, a wealthy East Coast socialite, whose fortune comes through her husband, who wheels and deals in Wall Street with the ethics of Bernie Madoff. She has a sister who was adopted, as she was by the same couple, although both siblings had different parents. Jasmine was considered the “pretty one with good genes” while Ginger (Sally Hawkins) attributes her low station in life to her perceived parental rejection. Jasmine’s husband Hal (Alec Baldwin) acquires properties like a child consumes chocolate, all under various shady companies, however, Jasmine is too busy drinking vodka martinis and entertaining, to look too closely at his business dealings or his extramarital affairs. Once the evidence comes in that Hal is cheating and wants a divorce to be with his current mistress, Jasmine has a nervous breakdown. Soon after, Hal is fingered by the FBI for his corrupt financial dealings, the government confiscates all his assets and he is sent to prison. Destitute, Jasmine goes to San Francisco to stay with Ginger until she can get back on her feet. Here the real drama unfolds as sisters with very different class backgrounds since leaving the nest, struggle to come together. Jasmine’s Louis Vuitton 4piece luggage set in the middle of Ginger’s storefront apartment says it all. In her “entitled” lifestyle, she has little patience for her sister’s Brooklyn boyfriend Chili and his beer-drinking buddies, or Ginger’s two
small ruckus- making sons from her first marriage. The tension is further escalated when scenes from her former life, reveal that Ginger and her former husband had won $200,000 on a lottery ticket and were talked into having Hal invest the funds. All the money was lost in a failed venture. Here, director Woody Allen goes into what he is known for in his films, the inner angst and anxiety of his characters, when faced with life-dilemmas, and we witness the unraveling of Jasmine. Her depression and panic attacks become more frequent, her need for Xanax and martinis make her world a numbing blur and finally her plans to take a computer class and get an online decorating degree, falter through circumstances. Her last ditch hope to marry a wealthy young diplomat she meets, to regain the status that defines her identity, is the thin straw she holds on to. This film is a poignant yet sad look at how riches can vanish, social status can change, and identity be rudely altered, when it is anchored in things that can be taken away. You’ll have to see the film to see how life choices and attitudes define Jasmine’s final reality. 13
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By Ingrid Manzione
Flamingo Watching We received an invitation and had no other choice but to say, “Yes, we’ll snorkel today.” It was the perfect summer morning, the kind that you anxiously await, when the ocean has calmed itself into flatness and turned to glass, it’s perfect, “yes, we’ll snorkel today”. Having no time to waste we take off in our 17 foot Key West, leaving Virgin Gorda behind and a barely visible Anegada in front of us. The ride is smooth and just long enough to allow me to dream of vivid blue damselfish and their tiny white spots and what was the name of that school of purple fish? My dreams are soon put aside as we weave our boat through the long line of reefs, looking for that perfect spot. Finally we have arrived and we begin to swim. In my excitement I haven’t noticed the current and find myself battling the water. If I stop to study what is before me, my body is swept back over the reefs that I’ve carefully worked my way around. When we realize we are ending up in the same spot, not that far from our boat, we give up. So we pack and pull anchor. The morning light is warming, surrounding us with brilliant blues, greens and whites. With no agenda we move slowly through the water, easily losing ourselves in the beauty of the Caribbean. It begins as a mirage, a white horizontal line interrupted with sparkles of blue and the closer we get I see intervals of pink. A silence falls upon us, I want to scream, we cut the engine, we have found the pot of gold; the biggest flock of birds I have ever seen is peacefully standing in the shallows of Anegada. They stand tall, stoic, long necks holding heads turned in all directions, an island of flamingos. I am afraid, afraid that any movement or sound will put an end to this sight before me. Getting closer I hear unfamiliar Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide
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chatter, they’re watching us. We drift and the closer we get the less I breathe, they’ve taken my breath away. With no warning one bird signals it is time and I can breathe again. Gracefully they rise out of the water; necks and legs extended circling us. I try to count but there are too many and they circle back again, as if to give me a chance to stop counting and admire their slender shapes and ease with which they travel in such a large group. They decide to allow me another look and take their position back in the grassy flats. I’m honored and revert back to my frozen stance; I want to take them in. The boat is floating, slowly, close to them I see they are so unlike those funny plastic flamingos and realize the beauty of a flamingo on one’s lawn. Statuesque in their elegant shades of red and their carefully painted masks, they are beautiful. We drift past and they begin to look like a pink island, a white line and eventually a memory of a perfect day. 14
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